ChrisTV has integrated support for WinLirc but can not receive and process directly the remote control signals, so a third party software is needed in order to control ChrisTV.

Basically in order to control ChrisTV Software, you need an application that receives and process the signal from remote control (as the remote applications that came bundled with the TV Card) and then sends keyboard shortcuts to ChrisTV window. (Here you can see a list of ChrisTV Shortcuts : http://www.chris-tv.com/keyboard.html)

1. Applications bundled with TV CardsSome TV Cards come with a remote software that can be configured to work with third party applications like Winamp, ChrisTV etc.
In this case is very simple you only have to define a custom profile for ChrisTV.exe file and assign for each remote button the keyboard key that should send to ChrisTV Window.

Example of this kind of applications are :
Pinnacle PCTV Remote - comes with any Pinnacle TV Card.

Also ChrisTV Package 4.00 and up comes with a "Remote Control Files" folder where you can find :
a ) ChrisTV Program Exported Group for Girder 3.2x and up (ChrisTV Program.GML file)
b ) BRemote addon for ChrisTV support (Bremote.txt)
c ) ATI Remote Wonder Plugin for controlling ChrisTV
d ) Hauppauge remote configuration file (Irremote.ini) ready to control ChrisTV, for more details please read this topic : http://forum.chris-tv.com/index.php?sho ... #entry4483e ) ChrisTV uICE Application Group
f ) Addons to the PCTV Remote Program - profiles.ini (read the file for more details).

I have made a site which should help all users with Lifeviews' bundled "lvhidsvc.exe" (e.g. Lifeview, Highscreen, or even Typhoon TV Cards, I assume, it is bundled with most TVCards) to make their remote work as they want to with any program.

Search the file 'lvhidsvc.exe' on your computer (when having installed the original software before) or on the drivers CD, if you find it, you should be able to take advantage of the information provided on www.drumkid.de/remote.

3. In "ChrisTV\Remote Control Files\Girder" you can find "ChrisTV Program.GML" - ChrisTV Exported Group for Girder software.
a. Launch Girder
b. Goto File->Settings
c. On the General tab choose Browse and select the ChrisTV_Program GML file.
d. Click Auto Load so that Girder automatically Loads up this file on Startup.

4. Select and setup the plugin for your Remote.
a. Go to the Plugins tab.
b. Find and check the name of the plugin you installed.
c. Click Apply, Click Auto Enable Input Device and Click OK.

5. Now you get to the actual setting up of the buttons to do the actual commands.
To setup an event (button press) to a command the steps are:
a. Select the an action ( for example Basic Function-> "Mute")
b. Click on the remote icon next to the desired command.
c. Click Learn Event
d. Press the remote key that you want to execute that event.

Click on the plus symbol to expand each group.
Repeat the learning of events for each command.

After you have made the changes, make sure that you save them (File->Save)

Extract the contents of the latest hauppauge driver you've downloaded by using WinRAR or TUGZip and copy hcwi2c32.dll to C:\WINDOWS\System32.

Install the IR Remote control application software and close it right after successful installation (right-click the small remote control icon in the systray next to the clock and choose "Exit").

Inside of C:\WINDOWS you'll find a file called irremote.ini. Rename it to irremote.orig for backup purposes and replace it with the version attached to this posting. Start the IR Remote control software and you're done.

The keys are mapped as follows (silver remote control) for ChrisTV PVR :